Around 40 percent of people with schizophrenia will have the paranoid type. This is one of five sub-types of schizophrenia. Paranoid schizophrenia tends to appear later in life, usually around the age of 25 to 30. The main features are a preoccupation with one or more delusions or f...
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Chris
Saturday, August 09, 2008 at 07:55 AM
Thanks expert Jerry
This sharepost is full of much helpful and thought provoking detail. At the stage we are now at, I have on a personal level come to recognise , very clearly I think ,that anxiety/primordial fear as having been the chief driving force so the 'construction engineer' of the sz brain comes up with paranoid distortions, initially as coping solutions, our son shows.
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Chris UK
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